Is this a dessert or a snack? or a starter? It is sweet in taste, crispy outside & soft inside. Haha!! So for foodies, it is just super delicious food. If you consume it just before your main course food then it may be considered as a starter but if you consume it after the main course then it is a dessert. I love to eat those pakodas as a light meal in the evening so for me, it is a snack. I used to say this banana based taler bora (Sweet palm fritters) because it is almost similar to taler bora in taste.
Ingredients4 ripe banana (kathali kela preferable)
120 gm rice flour
30 gm suji/semolina
½ cup sugar
1.5 teaspoon fennel/saunf
2 whole cardamoms, (only seeds)
Pinches of salt
Water as needed
2.5 tablespoons refined vegetable oil
Method- Mash (use a blender) ripe banana, add rice flour, suji, salt, roughly crushed fennel & cardamom seeds, sugar powder and mix all
- Now add water and make a perfect batter (not so thin and not so thick for making pakoda)
- Then heat oil in a kadai (Indian cooking pot) and pour small piece of batter directly into the hot oil
- Cook each pakoda properly till it turn into golden brown over a medium flame.